Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [noun] were [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Including information about job characteristics improved the extent to which pay variance within the sexes was explained , but it did not explain very much more of the gap between the sexes since men and women in apparently similar sorts of jobs were being paid at different rates . ) |
| 2 | while Swindon folk were enjoying their ice hockey … the sporting fans of Bletchley were being entertained with something a little more graceful … |
| 3 | In the countryside beyond Adelaide , tiny villages were just beginning to emerge , and acres of land were being cultivated for garden plots . |
| 4 | One reason for the confusing variety of interpretation found in the review was that different aspects of tests were being stressed . |
| 5 | Hall 's positive views about the timing of the judges ' appointments probably originated as early as 1835 , when the plans for the new Houses of Parliament were being considered . |
| 6 | Husks of rye and scraps of straw were being splintered aside by the charging horse . |
| 7 | And at a time of frequent harvest failures and recurrent food shortage , exports of grain were being ruthlessly forced upwards . |
| 8 | The arts generally continued to thrive through public subsidy , to orchestral music above all , and new forms of partnership were being developed between the Arts Council and local authorities and industry and finance . |
| 9 | Secondly , as Smart points out , later in the 1950s prostitution came to be linked with fears about immigration , not only , she suggests , because prostitutes were often linked with pimps who were , for example , Maltese , West Indian or Italian , but because it was also believed , for instance by the Wolfenden Committee and many in Parliament , that the ranks of prostitutes were being swollen by large numbers of immigrant women . |
| 10 | The former , according to Dr Oliver Rackham , indicates that areas of woodland were being carefully managed as coppices with standards in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages to produce the poles for rails and hurdles and the timber for the heavier tracks . |
| 11 | By the late 1960s a number of lines of evidence were being brought together into a new , radical model of global tectonics . |
| 12 | All of this meant that Paisley 's criticisms of apostasy were being uttered in a considerably more apostate era than the times in which Hunter and Grier had failed to promote their schism . |
| 13 | Around 428 million tonnes of waste were being generated annually . |
| 14 | Deforestation was the chief cause of floods and landslides which killed several hundred people each year ; 15,000 million tonnes of earth were being washed into Asian rivers each year and villages were lacking clean drinking water . |
| 15 | In Anglo-Irish. erm ‘ There was a small tap on the pane , as though something had struck it , followed by a light , though abundant falling , as though grains of sand were being dropped from a window above , and then a more intense and regular sound , which took on a rhythm and became fluid , resonant , musical , infinite , universal . |
| 16 | Soon pieces of meat were being roasted right around the fire , and the air was thick with the smell of charred flesh and singeing fur . |
| 17 | While the tank was being prepared and the water standing , six large pieces of bogwood were being soaked in a dustbin to allow the tannic acid to leach out of the wood to a limited extent , as I intended that the wood would still leach out the acid and brown coloration into the aquarium water providing the fish with darkened water to swim around in . |
| 18 | Broadly speaking then , at this time , two versions of mathematics were being taught to two different categories of pupil , largely in different types of school , by teachers who , again broadly speaking , had been educated in two different types of post-school institution : the university and the teacher training college . |
| 19 | We were also aware that ‘ TTT ’ began to be in danger of becoming yet another over-used and under-defined primary slogan and all kinds of claims were being made for its educational efficacy for children simply because of the novelty , stimulus and enjoyment which it could give to their teachers . |
| 20 | Um , usually these kinds of writings were written by y'know kind of upper class white heterosexual men erm so er you can see where that kind of prospective was coming from , but er nevertheless these kinds of views were being expressed around about that time . |
| 21 | All kinds of scores were being settled , it seemed . |
| 22 | In Russia , too , the abstract possibilities of Cubism were being explored and developed . |
| 23 | In one case it was able to show that tracks of information were being written too closely together , thus partially erasing each other . |
| 24 | There is abundant evidence to show that in almost every corner of Europe the area under the plough was expanding : villages were growing ; new lands were being colonized ; marshes were being reclaimed , forests felled ; in the eleventh and twelfth centuries the frontiers of Europe were being pressed outwards , and on Germany 's eastern frontier , and to a lesser extent elsewhere , new land was being settled by peasants as well as by lords . |
| 25 | In May , following these forays , Hitler had his first top-level meeting to discuss the western defences with the Todt Organisation , and plans were begun for the so-called Atlantic Wall , although there already existed a series of defended ports and the original defence arrangements set up when fleets of craft were being assembled for an invasion of England . |
| 26 | Similar gestures of sympathy were being made in Cork and Galway , where newspapers also opened support funds for the bombing victims . |
| 27 | The city was envisaged , then , as a social cauldron ; one in which the struggles between the old and new ways of life were being actively conducted . |
| 28 | In the early 1970s more and more allegations of cohabitation were being investigated , and more women were being deprived of benefit on these grounds . |
| 29 | The smaller landlords who could not find cash or credit to equip themselves as sugar planters quickly sold out ; land prices in the 1640s rose to heights which showed that the profits of sugar were being anticipated and capitalized generously . |
| 30 | Large sums of money were being spent on the expansion of arts degree courses whose students would make little contribution to Britain 's economic welfare . |